TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Don’t tell fans, players or the head football coaches at Florida A&M and South Carolina State about tonight’s nationally televised matchup (ESPNU, tape delay at 10:30 p.m.) at Bragg Memorial Center lacking in significance.While both teams, especially the Bulldogs, find themselves more outside of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title chase than in past years, the outcome in this 82-year-old series can still serve to help define the season.
“I still think that names — South Carolina State Bulldogs and Florida A&M Rattlers — still resonate at a high level,” FAMU head coach Joe Taylor said. “All eyes will be on Tallahassee for this match-up.”
“I told our players (Sunday) when we were talking about this weekend’s game at the beginning of the season when this game was selected for the television contract deal, it was thought to be possibly the biggest game of the year,” S.C. State head football coach Buddy Pough said. “The fact that we’ve both had some issues of sorts has led this to be a game that’s not quite the game I’m sure that they originally signed up for. That’s right now not our problem. Our problem is the fact that we want to go in and play the very best that we can as we possibly can and we’ll let the powers that deal with those kind of issues deal with those issues.”
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